Amar Alibegovic one step closer to returning to Italy

Napoli Basketball is pressing on the accelerator: after the arrival of John Petruccelli, the Neapolitan club is also close to closing for Amar Alibegovic, a 2.06-meter big forward, whom Jasmin Repesa, the new head coach of the Azzurri, had led last season in Trapani. Reporting the hypothesis is ‘Superbasket,’ according to which negotiations are at an advanced stage.

Amar is part of a family with a great basketball tradition: his father Teo was a top player in the 1990s (he wore the undershirts of Fortitudo Bologna, Trieste, and Udine in Italy, as well as the national teams of Yugoslavia and Slovenia), his brothers Denis and Mirza both play (the latter is fresh off a season as captain at APU Udine), and his cousin Luka Garza just finished the NBA season with the Boston Celtics.

Amar Alibegovic, 1995 class, has already passed through Italy in his career, where he played several seasons: two at Stella Azzurra between 2012 and 2014 before his experience in American colleges (at St. John’s), two more at Virtus Roma between 2018 and 2020), two more at Virtus Bologna until 2022 and at Trapani in 2024-2025. Instead, this year he has been in Spain, in Granada.

As far as Napoli’s market is concerned, coach Repesa is the driving force of this first phase: the dialogue between the club and the Croatian coach is pushing the Campania reality towards an ambitious dimension, ready to compete for the upper zones of the standings after a season in which the hooking of the eighth place escaped by two points.

President Matt Rizzetta wants to build a high-level roster, capable of dreaming big: among the names in the crosshairs there would also be that of another son of art, Nico Mannion, play-guard of Olimpia Milano who is leaving due to contract expiration: a profile that is highly liked for technical qualities and experience in the Italian league, beyond the 25 years of age turned in March by Pace’s son.